The Lost Year

The Lost Year

Katherine Marsh

Roaring Brook Press, 368 pp. ISBN:  978-1-25031-360-7

Grades 5 and up

During the pandemic, Matthew’s 100-year-old great-grandmother comes to stay – and while helping to sort through her boxes of belongings, Matthew discovers her harrowing story of surviving the Holodomor, the famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in the 1930s. Told in alternating voices, timelines, and locations, this is a tale of stories as a way to heal the past, connect with the present, and shape the future.

Katherine Marsh

Katherine Marsh is an award-winning author of novels for middle-grade readers including The Lost Year; Nowhere Boy; The Night Tourist; Medusa: The Myth of Monsters and more. Among her honors are National Book Award finalist, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery, winner of the Jane Addams Award for Children’s Chapter Books, and winner of the Middle East Book Award. Her books have also been Junior Library Guild Gold Selections, New York Times Notables, American Library Association Notables, Bank Street Best Books, on numerous state lists, and have been translated into sixteen languages. 

A former magazine journalist, Katherine lives in Washington, DC with her husband, two children and an astonishing array of pets.

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